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    Israel's end is near 😎

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  • Taking a stab in the dark here, but they probably don't like the genocide of Palestinians that the state of Israel is engaged in

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Yeah to expand on this, in professional settings you'll want a higher sampling frequency so you don't end up with eg. aliasing, but for consumer use ≥44–48kHz sampling rate is pretty much pointless

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Probably the latter. Seems like a cynical marketing ploy, really

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Surprisingly enough, some essential oils do have research-based actual uses, such as topical antibacterials, antifungals and antiparasitics.

    While there's quite a bit of woo woo around them, there's also a lot of interesting research into phytochemicals like essential oils. Same with a few other "plant-based" things like pine resin; there's even a clinically tested pine resin salve that helps with wound healing and is used for treating difficult wounds in some hospitals in Finland.

    The problem with essential oils is trying to filter out the snake oil claims from the actual research-based claims. Most vendors tend to have pretty, well, wild claims about what their products can do, so your best bet is scholar.google.com or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and the like

  • Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix

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  • So because VPN works for you, it's impossible for it to not work for literally anybody else?

  • checkmate, big geology!!

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  • Huh, interesting. I didn't expect to learn about volcanoes today but here I am! Thank you for the explanation

  • checkmate, big geology!!

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  • Ohhh, I had no idea there were different kinds of volcanoes but it does make sense in hindsight.

    Well, I guess this might have been covered in primary or secondary education at some point but it's been about 3000 years since my last geography class

  • checkmate, big geology!!

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  • Definitely! I find that most problems in life can be solved with cement; if it didn't solve your problem, you just didn't use enough of it.

  • China: Minorities accounting for 1% of total population make up 34% of prison inmates

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  • Ahh right yes, gotcha. I misunderstood you and thought you didn't think the statistics were believable because they're so skewed

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • How do you propose these "open source journalists" make a living? Corporate grants or straight-up corporate jobs just like a huge chunk of Linux development, landing us right back at square one, if not even somewhat behind it? At least independent media exists nowadays, but if the assumption is that all news has to be freely available, like acastcandream said that'd just lead to journalism being very effectively locked out as a career path for anyone who's not independently wealthy or somehow able to make people actually donate or pay for a subscription despite the content being available for free – and that hasn't worked out too well for most publishers so far.

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • no one ever tactfully includes ads

    This is pretty patently hyperbole; I've run into many sites, including news, with non-intrusive ads.

    Whether it's class-based gatekeeping is another matter entirely. For-profit media employees have to eat too, and in the current economic system most can't just give people access to content for free without any sort of monetization mechanism and with a voluntary subscription, because that'll very often lead to income dropping off a cliff. Unfortunately people are very loath to pay for online services except for some more niche cases like the Fediverse where instances run on voluntary donations – although I've seen a couple of moderately popular instances struggling with upkeep being higher than what people are willing to donate (and it's not just services either; open source developers face similar issues.) In some countries we at least have public broadcasting companies, although eg. here in Finland the current extremist right-wing government is looking to reduce its funding by quite a bit and possibly even entirely dismantle it if they get their way.

    While I definitely agree that news should be available for free, railing against a for-profit publisher's paywall is, frankly, myopic; like it or not, in the current system even content producers have to make a living. None of us really has a choice in whether we want to live in this system or not

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    Flow state: Why fragmented thinking is worse than any interruption

    blog.stackblitz.com /posts/flow-state/

  • China: Minorities accounting for 1% of total population make up 34% of prison inmates

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  • Why does it seem statistically unlikely? If the assumption is that minorities are somehow being targeted, wouldn't statistics like this be exactly what one would see?

  • Authorities in Latvia call on residents to turn basements into air-raid shelters over concerns the Baltic country could be Russia’s next target

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  • If Trump wins, I figure it's fairly likely that Russia will turn its sights towards attacking one of them smaller NATO members at its borders. Probably not a full-on invasion at least at first, but more of a test of whether Article 5 actually holds water or not – and with Trump in charge of the US, it's unlikely he'd decide to stand up against Russia

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • Well, whatever the solution to this problem is, I'm fairly sure "put a blockchain on it" isn't going to be it. Distributed ledgers do potentially have some uses, but using them to carry "proof of humanity" information doesn't make much sense

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (eg. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)

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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • Oh yeah it absolutely is bullshit, I'm not saying that. Or, well, it is true they're likely collecting tons of data but it's not like US companies don't do it too and for reasons that are probably just as bad. This is why I tend to think that if you're going to ban TikTok for collecting data, you can't ignore Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple et al

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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • Well, they're totally different platforms . The rationale behind the TikTok ban (and I'm not saying I'm in favor of it or opposed to it) is that they can do spooky spooky things with your personal data and your attention – your opinions can be nudged once there's enough data on you and your eyeballs are on the app half the day. And just to repeat, I'm not saying I agree with the ban (well, not with banning just TikTok anyhow…)

    Temu and AliExpress have their own problems (like the absolutely mind boggling waste of finite resources) but nobody's worried Temu is radicalizing boys or collecting tons of your personal data. And yes even Temu does collect data just like everyone else nowadays, but it's a shopping site; compared to a social network there's not all that much you can get out of your users or too many ways to really influence them outside of making them spend more money

  • The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use

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  • Are we assuming that everyone is always going to be biking with no other options? I don’t think anyone is even advocating for that.

    BUT WHAT IF YOUR LEGS ARE BROKEN? WHAT IF THERE'S A NUCLEAR WAR???

    The people who seem to think that biking is an untenable option because you might have to very occasionally use other modes of transport make me wonder if that mindset comes from the fact that people feel that it's normal to only use one mode of transport pretty much ever, because that's how many people are with cars.

  • Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news

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  • You're just throwing a tantrum at this point

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Why is the Cat Screaming?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    The Santa Claus is good! The penis is evil!

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Make sure to use your freebie

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    This meme is definitely not an allegory for anything

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Yes Alfredo

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    That's an oddly specific phobia

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Frank!

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    God, I hate Mondays

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    So, turns out that nuclear-powered pacemakers were a thing

    www.ans.org /news/article-3591/the-case-of-the-pupowered-pacemaker/
  • Risa @startrek.website
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    He's such a versatile actor

  • Lord of the memes @midwest.social
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    Look, sir. Hobbits

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Slightly skanky

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    ah, yes

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Which one's right?

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    RAND research report: Escalation in the War in Ukraine

    www.rand.org /pubs/research_reports/RRA2807-1.html
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Plant is you

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    How do you plan on keeping the queen occupied?

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Poland stops supplying weapons to Ukraine as grain row escalates

    www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-66873495
  • Risa @startrek.website
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    He's a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms. His responses dictated by an elaborate software program